All School Mass
Please join us for All School Mass this week on Friday, September 15.
Please note, out of reverence to the Mass, the doors will close at 8:45 a.m each week for Mass. The Front Office will remain open to sign in students, however Parents and Visitors who arrive late will not be able to get into the BAC/GSC once the Mass doors are closed. Thank you for making every effort to arrive before 8:45 a.m.
Wednesday Mass
Optional daily Mass will be tomorrow, September 13. All are welcome! Mass starts at 7:10 and ends at 7:40. It’s in the All Saints Chapel every Wednesday before school. What a beautiful way to start the day by worshiping the Lord!
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Mom's Retreat
All StJPII moms are welcome to attend the Moms Retreat on September 20. Come have fellowship with other moms from 6:45-8:15 p.m.
First Annual Overnight Retreat
The first annual overnight retreat for the Moms Club will take place the weekend of September 29 through October 1. Only 5 spots remaining! Please contact Kristi Yohr with any questions, kyohr@jp2.org.
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8th Grade Service Projects
8th graders please sign up for a service project. Here are the September, October and November projects. Please click the button below to sign up.
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Annual Fund Kick Off
Students and staff may wear their favorite sports shirts with uniform bottoms tomorrow, September 13, to help us kick off the Annual Fund Drive! Visit https://www.jp2.org/giving/annual-fund to make your gift today!
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8th Grade Parents Washington DC Meeting
There will be a mandatory 8th grade parent meeting on Thursday, September 14, 2023 from 6:00-7:00 PM at StJPII in St. Jude Hall to discuss the upcoming Washington, D.C. trip.
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Class Pictures and Retake Picture Day
Tuesday, September 19 will be Class Picture day and Individual Retake Picture Day. All students will take a picture with their homeroom class for the yearbook and they MUST wear their FULL DRESS UNIFORM.
If your child was absent or not in full dress uniform on our last picture day, they are on the list to have their individual yearbook picture taken on Tuesday, September 19. If you would like for your child to have their individual picture retaken, please click the button below to access the picture retake form.
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Early Dismissal - TUESDAY, September 26
Our first early dismissal for this school year will be on Tuesday, September 26. Pre-K and Kindergarten students are dismissed at 2:15 p.m., 1st - 5th graders are dismissed at 2:30 and Middle School is dismissed at 2:45. We have early dismissal once a month, usually on the last Tuesday of the month, to allow time for monthly faculty meetings. Typically on these days, students may wear school-appropriate blue jeans and their StJPII House Shirt. Please refer to the Parent/Student Handbook for more guidelines. All early dismissal dates are posted on the online calendar.
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Spirit Night at Chick-fil-A
Families are invited to patronize our neighborhood Chick-fil-A on early dismissal day, Tuesday, September 26, from 2:00-6:00 p.m. Once a month we will partner with the 13412 Briar Forest location (around the corner at Eldridge) and they have graciously offered to donate 10% of the dine-in and drive-thru proceeds back to StJPII. (Orders through their APP qualify for 15% back!) When ordering, share you are with St. John Paul II Catholic School. Please thank them for this wonderful partnership!
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Lost and Found
Please label ALL of your child's clothes, especially sweatshirts and sweaters. All clothes with a name will be returned to the child. If clothing does not have a name, it will be put in a tub in SJH where the students can search. After two weeks, items will be donated to the used uniform sale. If you have lost jewelry or watches, please check with the front office.
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Sign Up Parties
A warm and sincere Thank You to the following families for hosting a fun and memorable White Linen Cuban Nights Evening: The Bickley Family, The Bello Family, The Donahue Family, The Faerber Family, The Jadallah Family and The Price Family. Thank you also to those that attended. Your presence and support helped make it enjoyable and a success. Click on the button below to see more Sign Up party opportunities.
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Smart Families Shaping Souls
Smart Families Shaping Souls is excited to be a part of your 2023-2024 school year and to be launching Smart Families Shaping Souls at 18 schools in the Diocese this fall. Throughout the year parents and children will be given information and tools to identify how their God given human dignity is under attack from common forms of manipulation utilized today. The heart of the program is the Smart Pledge where they ask all parents to agree to keep your school smartphone free and not buy their children a smartphone or device until after 8th grade. Read more about this organization by reading their newsletter linked below.
Hope you can join us tonight, Tuesday, September 12, 6-8pm in the GSC, to listen to Dr. Crystal Collier speak about Technology and the Developing Brain. Click the flyer below to learn more about the presentation.
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Take Mom Out To The Ballgame
The Mother & Son Event has moved to the ballpark. Come out to Constellation Field in Sugarland for an afternoon with your mom on September 24. The game starts at 2:00 p.m. for the Space Cowboys versus the El Paso Chihuahuas. Click the button below to purchase tickets and select your seats. StJPII has reserved multiple sections for the big game, we hope you will join us! The kids will be able to run the bases after the game! Almost 150 tickets have been sold!! Don't miss out!
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Hello Friends,
We have a BOOK FAIR just around the corner. The Fair we have chosen this year is Literati Book Fairs. We are steering away from Scholastic to avoid controversial content that has plagued their fairs. Families are probably aware of the library book-related issues that have been in the news. We have a strong mission to provide high-quality literature for our school leaving out some of the controversial materials. You, the parent, are the first teacher. The reading you have for your children at home or selected by you is your domain. We offer fairs, but cannot read every page of every title. I hope you understand the difficulty. Many of our schools and public schools are canceling book fairs, changing companies, and other plans. We are hopeful that the new fair vendor will do a better job of sifting through those types of issues. I do imagine that no fair is perfect but this company seeks to sell reading materials, journals, and writing pens and pencils and little else in the way of toys. We hope it will be a good choice. There is an online component so you can purchase online until October 6, 2023, the next to the last day of our fair. When online you can set up payments just as do other fairs. The Fair will be arriving and ready for browsing on September 29. We look forward to seeing you at the fair. We will be open until 4 p.m. each school day so you can bring your family to select items from the fair. This link will be sent very soon.
PUBLIC LIBRARY EVENTS INFORMATION On another local note, the Kendall Branch of the Houston Public Library hosts several events per month. Some events may be of interest to families here at StJPII. I am attaching the link so you can look at the calendar for this branch. I hope you find this handy and useful!
Happy Reading!
Sherry Lamb,
Your Librarian
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The Middle School hallway is set for STUCO Elections to take place this week! Students created colorful and inventive campaign posters to get their message out to the student body. Due to the large number of students interested in running for STUCO, Officer Elections have been moved to Wednesday and Thursday, September 13th and 14th. Campaign videos will be viewed and voting will take place within the students' History classes. Results for the Officer Elections will be shared on Friday, September 15th. Homeroom Representative Elections will take place Monday, September 18th with results being shared Tuesday, September 19th.
Best of luck to all candidates running for STUCO!
Ms. Fama
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Save the Date
The first PTO meeting for the 2023-2024 school year will be tomorrow, September 13 in St. Jude Hall from 8:30-9:30 a.m. Please contact the PTO President, Tiffany Doucette, at pto@jp2.org with any questions.
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Russo's Spirit Day
Please join us for school Spirit Day at Russo’s NY Pizzeria tomorrow, September 13. Russo’s is located at 13346 Briar Forest Drive #100; 281-497-9800. All orders dine in and delivery counts all day. Just let them know you are from StJPII! Russo’s has a delicious menu that includes salads, pasta, sandwiches and pizzas.
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Save the Date - Halloween Skate Party
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Middle School Athletics
Our Lady Saints Volleyball teams started their season last week and displayed some great skills! Varsity played well but did not get the wins, but our C Team & JV both were victorious against St. Ambrose and St. Vincent de Paul. We are so proud of all 3 teams and look forward to a great season!
Soccer, Football, and Cross Country are finally back to normal this week due to the Heat Index being lower! Cross Country has their 1st meet this weekend, Soccer & Football will "kick off" their season next week! We are so happy to see our SAINTS back in action!
Elementary Athletics
Elementary Soccer is up and running! Our Coaches are starting their team practices this week and our little Saints are ready to play some soccer! Thank you all for your support and love for the sports program here at school, we could not do it without you!
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StJPII Dads Basketball
StJPII dads play men's basketball on Wednesday Nights in the gym at 7:00 p.m. Please contact Mark Gugliotti to be added to the distribution list and for more information: markgoogs04@gmail.com or 832-301-1681. Everyone is welcome. It's a fun way to meet other dads and get some great exercise!
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St. John Paul II Catholic School |
1400 Parkway Plaza, Houston, TX 77077
281-496-1500 • 281-496-2943 (fax)
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St. John Paul II Catholic School prepares all students spiritually
and academically to succeed in life and to do God's will.
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